| Does intel have a 64bit CPU?
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| Does intel have a 64bit CPU?
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from my reading I have concluded AMD is blowing the doors off intel. Well if the x86 world gets itself into all kinds of compatablity problems that will open the door to the PowerPC world of Macs and whatever IBM has up it's sleeve. Thinking round here is that IBM rid itself of x86 PCs so it could reinvent the PC based on PowerPC/Unix OS (Linux/OSX/AIX/New Java?). If so that would be a powerful competitor to x86. Sun, IBM, Mac vrs MS. Mini Mac might be the opening salvo.
It amazes me that INTEL learned nothing from the Apples attempt to go from the Apple II to the Mac, and Gates transition from Dos to Windows.
AMD has a real understanding of the situation.
The biggest mistake ever made was when Intel refused to renew the contract for AMD and Harris to pay royalties to make Intel chips.
With out the renewed contract the only way AMD could survive was by doing their own clones. Yes at first AMD would be a year behind INTEL. But Intel went from getting a cut off of every CPU chip AMD made to getting a real competitor.
Once a technology company has real competition, it must win every contest for every generation. The odds say it is only a matter of time until the competition wins a round.
If the competition wins a couple of rounds in a row, INTEL can become the number two player and may never recover. It would have been far better to let AMD pay royalties to make Intel designed chips. That way Intel could afford to make a mistake and AMD could only suffer too.
Most big companies that have only known victory, haven't a clue about how to recover from their first defeat.
Yeah, in addition to the (incompatible) Itanium, they have an extended x86 chip that is -- heh heh -- "AMD compatible."